One of the lessons I learned fairly quickly in the corporate world was never trust anyone who will lose their job if they say the opposite of their public statements.
They have an inherent conflict of interest.
If you think about it that applies to everybody who is interviewed by the mass media—all corporate executives or leaders of any large organization of any kind and of course all government officials.
Why would you believe anything someone says with a gun to their head?
It’s certainly a pervasive, institutional mindset even outside outside of the institutions.
Truth is whatever supports, agrees with, and advances an agenda. Whoever stands in conflict is automatically ignored, shunned, or openly mocked. And if those methods don’t succeed, stronger tactics are to be applied.
The gun is the established order [of anything] and few want to trigger it. Otherwise there’d be a mob waiting, the “democracy” that the regime is determined to protect.